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• Some love for Base R. Part 2

  Where were we? Giving some love to base-R and putting together the idea that it is possible to write R…
  18 Mar, '23

• Some love for Base R. Part 1

  For a long time it has bothered me when people look down at base-R (meaning the set of functions that…
  18 Mar, '23

• Flotsam 18: writing

  ༄> Adrian Kosmaczewski has an interesting post on How to write a programming book (using ASCIIDOC of all things). And another…
  17 Mar, '23

• Jetsam 36: sunflower rain

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  17 Mar, '23

• Jetsam 35: hospitals

  Some years are simple accumulations of 365 days, one after the other, without many memorable challenges. Twenty twenty-three is the…
  14 Mar, '23

• Not a contribution to science

  皿 Null hypotheses of no difference are usually known to be false before the data are collected … when they are,…
  10 Mar, '23

• Jetsam 34: Red sky at night

  [◉¯] Thursday was a fantastic “red sky at night, shepherd’s delight” time while driving to pick up kiddo and then home…
  10 Mar, '23

• The data may not contain the answer

  皿 The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can…
  4 Mar, '23

• Flotsam 17: maps

  Tiling is one of the big pieces to put together nice, interactive maps. How The Post is replacing Mapbox with…
  3 Mar, '23

• Reviewing a manuscript in two hours

  Today I declined to review a manuscript for a journal because the English language in the title and abstract, which…
  1 Mar, '23